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Some full text. Australian education index covering curriculum, educational research, policy administration, psychology, sociology, teaching, and training. Coverage: Full text articles: 2000 - present ; Index: 1978 - present

Resources provided by the Australian Accounting Standards Board. Free resource.

Index. A database of abstracts related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

Key database for business, economics and information systems providing access to journal articles, working papers, business and industry news plus country and industry focused reports. Coverage: 1971–present

Index prepared by the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia. Includes accounting, auditing, taxation, insolvency, corporations law, superannuation, retirement planning, financial planning, practice management and human resources. Coverage: 1982 - present

Covers all areas of computing. Includes ebooks, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses and industry reports.

Acumen provides access to resources about managing architectural practices and projects. (No login required on page.)

Authoritative and peer reviewed legal research from the Australasia and Asia-Pacific regions, indexed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
Coverage:Full text articles: 1999 - present ; Index: 1975 - present

Catalog of the National Agricultural Library (US) Indexes journal articles, book chapters, short reports, and reprints on agriculture and environmental management.

No longer updated. Indexes and abstracts articles on library and information science.
Coverage: 1982 - April 2005

Searches a subset of PubMed articles and reports on alternatives to the use of live vertibrates in biomedical research and testing.

Repository of mathematical works in progress hosted by the American Mathematical Society as a service to researchers, teachers and students. Includes course notes, textbooks, and research expositions in progress.

No longer updated. Indexes and abstracts articles on Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries. Coverage: 1984 - June 2007

Provides access to all available Australian marine and climate science data and provides the primary access to IMOS data (Integrated Marine Observing System).

Australian multidisciplinary database. Covering the areas of business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

Covers Australian architects, architecture, building, interior design and landscape architecture. Produced by the Stanton Library, North Sydney Council.
Coverage: 1980 - present. (Index only)

Current information, historical detail and published material relating to agreements made between Indigenous people and others in Australia and overseas

Index. Covers Australian Indigenous health, including theses, unpublished articles, government reports, conference papers, abstracts, book chapters, books, discussion and working papers, and statistical documents. Coverage: 1900 - present

Index to all aspects of Australian sport including administration, children, coaching, disabled, economics, facilities, history, medicine, nutrition, physiology, psychology, women and Olympic Games (Sydney 2000).
Produced by the National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports Commission.
Coverage: 1989 - August 2012

Legislation, court decisions and legal resources.
Free resource.

This node of the Australian Data Archive (ADA) manages the collection and storage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research data

This site has annotated links over 500 resources for more than 150 languages

Database of children's books written by and or about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, age range birth-12 years. Includes Australian Curriculum and/or the Early Years Learning Framework codes and links to teaching resources. Books can be viewed in the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature (located in the Hub, in front of the Library building).

Gathers video content from free online courses and offers some original videos. See individual items for copyright rules.

Multidisciplinary database. Over 8500 full text journals (7,300 are peer reviewed) and indexing 13,000 publications.

A database which gives access to a range of physiotherapy related material including textbooks, multimedia, drug information and interactive dissection tools.

Scholarly journals and other key resources about the financial services industry, including accounting, auditing, tax, banking, and financial management. Coverage: 1971 – Present

APO specialises in grey literature and provides access to a range of research reports, working papers, discussion papers and statistics for effective public policy debate, decision making and implementation.

Includes PDF annual reports for many Includes Australian Stock Exchange listed and delisted companies back to 1995.

Search over 6000 artists to find their works in museum collections or browse by movement, medium, subject, or nationality

Access via Web of Science. Index to scholarly literature in the arts and humanities, proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Coverage: 1975-present.

Includes 400 journals covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Coverage: 1970 – Present

National database of Australia's flora and fauna. Collaborative national project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it available and usable online.

AusDI provides fast access to AusDI Independent Drug Monographs, pharmaceutical company product information, consumer medicine information leaflets, drug product images, product identifier module, and drug interaction systems. Unlimited access.
To access via tablet or mobile, first log in via desktop PC or laptop. Select “Login to personalise” then “Register for Access”, to create account details that can then be used on the AusDI Mobile site

Index to Australian fiction and poetry, writing for the theatre, biographical and travel writing, writing for film and television, criticism and reviews.

Free-access resource. Includes a collection of Australian and New Zealand law journals.

Australia’s national statistical agency, providing official statistics on a wide range of economic, social, population and environmental matters of importance to Australia.

The Clinical Practice Guidelines Portal provides access to clinical practice guidelines produced for Australian practice that have been assessed against criteria modified from the United States National Guidelines Clearinghouse, and adapted to the Australian context.

This National Health and Medical Research Council website provides a search for Australian trials and a list of other clinical trials registers. Includes general information about clinical trials for consumers and health care professionals.

A national service for the collection and preservation of research data relating to social, political and economic affairs. Consists of seven sub archives: Social Science, Historical, Indigenous, Longitudinal, Qualitative, Crime & Justice and International.

Concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.

ADIN provides a gateway to organisations providing services, research, guidelines, policies and many other resources relevant to alcohol, drugs and mental health.

Index to Australian engineering information including: agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, computer, earthquake, education, electrical, electronic, geotechnical, management, materials, mechanical, military, ocean, railway, structural, transport, tunnelling and water.
Coverage: 1980 - present

Indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields.
Coverage: 1991 - present

Indexes and abstracts articles on Australia's natural and cultural environment.
Coverage: 1987 - present

Index to historical information about indigenous people in NSW. Freely accessible website produced by the State Library of NSW.

Provides up-to-date and vital information on more than 500 injectable medicines and is an essential frontline resource ensuring patient safety and quality care.
3 concurrent users.

The AIHW is a national agency providing reliable, regular and relevant information and statistics on Australia's health and welfare.

Contains overviews of research undertaken; online data centre; reports and other publications

Comparative drug and therapeutic information, including indications, dosage, formulations, etc.
May not have full functionality if using IE7 or earlier browser.

Register of clinical trials being undertaken in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. Includes trials from the full spectrum of therapeutic areas of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, treatment and rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies.

Australia's free, national, independent journal of drugs and therapeutics.

This Legal Database is a collection of legal and policy information used by the Australian Taxation Office when making tax determinations. Free resource.

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic open access web resources. BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access full text for about 60% of the indexed documents.

Multimedia content including tools to help with the study of TV, radio, and online journalism (some resources are restricted to the UK). Includes the BBC News style guide. Select Collections to browse through topics.

Free index provides access to over 190,000 bibliographic citations for conservation literature. BCIN includes citations from the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (prior to 1998), technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books and audiovisual and unpublished materials.

BMC Proceedings is an online, open access journal publishing proceedings of conferences, including both peer-reviewed full-length articles and collections of meeting abstracts.

ARCHIVE - NO LONGER UPDATED.
Index to all aspects of building, construction and engineering, building research, building materials, building services, structural engineering, building regulations, urban and regional planning, and fire technology.
Coverage: 1989 - February 2002

BenchTV is streaming platform which provides original, current, legal content, published daily and weekly.

Collection of open access online journals in science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Collection of open access journals.

Open Access peer-reviewed Biomedical journals. Users must register (free) to search the journal database. Browsing does not require registration.

Provides access to journals covering a wide range of biology-related topics such as environmental studies, biological chemistry & microbiology.
Coverage:1998 – Present

Records information about the lives and works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers and the literary cultures and traditions that formed and influenced them.

Collections of text and image content covering architecture, urbanism, interior design. Comprises:
The Core Collection: Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, interactive visual timeline of global architectural history, and Bloomsbury’s library of architecture ebooks.
Architecture Design & Practice Online: over 200 titles focusing on studio design, technical detail, and professional practice.

Provides access to building codes in Australia.
Two user license, please log out after use. Before downloading a Standard: 1. Install the FileOpen Plugin 2. Ensure you have a current PDF Reader

Australia's national weather, climate and water agency.
Contents of this site are partially under Creative Commons license.

Provides company, industry, and geopolitical macroeconomic market research information for public and private companies including company overviews, history, competitors, summary financials as well as in-depth industry analyses.
Coverage: 1986 – present

Searches Business Source Complete, EconLit, Hospitality & Tourism Index and Regional Business News

Multidisciplinary with coverage of marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, & economics. Content includes books, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.

Regularly-updated publications in corporations law, credit, family, tax, trade practices, OH&S, sales, torts... Includes Australian Master Tax Guide.

Provides full text to more than 770 journals in the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Covers all aspects of crime and criminal justice including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime.
Coverage: 1968 - present

CORE provides searchable access to millions of research papers from repositories and Open Access journals. Useful for locating theses and dissertations.
Best viewed in Firefox or Chrome browsers

Full text Australian scientific journals.

Records more than 80 years of CSIRO research publications, such as journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports.

Free access to bibliometric indicators on scientific journals, calculated by Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) based on the Scopus bibliographic database.

Ebooks and journals published by University of Cambridge Press.

News and information services related to governing Australia. It includes information from Parliament, Government and the Courts, such as press releases, statements, transcripts, reports, legislation, tabled papers, treaties, gazettes, High Court judgments, decisions of the Federal Court and the AAT, and more.

Conference abstracts, non-indexed journals, theses, government department and other organisation documents, national programs and research studies which address palliative care information and evidence.

Resource of palliative care information and evidence and provides an extensive range of information and links about evidence-based practice in healthcare for health professionals, patients, carers, family, and friends.

Chemistry and biology reference database with almost 2 million compounds indexed. Requires free registration.

Collection of preprint chemistry research articles. These articles are not yet peer-reviewed.

A free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 29 million structures from hundreds of data sources

Collection of digitized images of buildings and cities from across time and throughout the world. Search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction

Australian Sports Commission's information and knowledge sharing repository. Free website.

Streamed videos on a broad range of subjects. Also includes off air television documentaries & movies. Staff can embed ClickView videos in Canvas. See help guide for more information.

International registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

Abstracts of over 400,000 reports of trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. CENTRAL provides individual reviewers with easy and reliable access to the maximum possible number of trials relevant to their review topic. Trials are identified from multiple sources, including searches of bibliographic databases, hand searches of many hundreds of journals and conference proceedings, and searches of other trial registers.

Contains systematic reviews and index to journal articles in the evidence-based health care area.

Online repository for self-archived papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, philosophy and biology.

Provides access to research in the areas of communication and mass media.

Clinical Psychology full text reference work.

Includes many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context.

Provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of computer and information systems-related topics.
Coverage:1998 - present

Provides access to cited conference proceedings in the science area.
Coverage from 1990-present.

Provides access to cited conference proceedings in the social science and humanities areas.
Coverage from 1990-present.

Consumer Health Complete supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.

Provides courses, video lectures, documentaries, images, books, and other multimedia in dozens of subjects.

Search portal to locate media which may be under creative commons licencing.
Use the ? icon for instructions.

Contains International research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications as well as litigation and crime trends.
Coverage: 1981 - Present

Chemical compound information, coverage 1985-present.
(Includes Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840)

Multidisciplinary index to more than 8,000 journals; coverage 1998-present.

Provides more than 200,000 journals references covering teratology and other aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicology. Coverage early 1900s to present.

Access to over 710,000 open access theses from European universities.

An index of articles from published and unpublished material on English second language learning and teaching in Australasia. No longer updated. Coverage: 1985 - January 2008

Collection of over 10,000 academic peer-reviewed ebooks. These books can also be found in the Library Catalogue.

Free full text quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Access journal articles and manuscripts resulting from US Department of Energy research funding.

Included content: DSM-5-TR, DSM-5, DSM-5-TR Clinical Cases, DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview, Spanish Edition of the Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5.

Public datasets from the Australian Government.

De Gruyter Open publishes fully open access journals and books in all major academic disciplines.

Open access database of biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators, and their works and exhibitions.

Open access scholarly papers from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Subsets include architecture, humanities, business, education, engineering, law, life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social & behavioural sciences.

Open Access index for locating published proceedings in the sciences, technology, and humanities.

Quick access to drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. Information on drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials through to their entry in the market place.

A curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes

Multidisciplinary collection of databases of journals, chapters, and reports including business, management, health and nursing, education, professional development.

Over 510,000 images relating to people, natural science, places, history, maps and flags

EBSCO offers more than one million high-quality e-book titles and over 70,000 audiobooks from more than 1,500 major academic publishers and University Presses from around the world.

ARCHIVE - NO LONGER UPDATED. Index and abstracts articles that provide international coverage on management, environmental, packaging and building topics.
Coverage: 1985 - May 2007

Open access version of the ERIC database. Some full text documents available.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a free online index to education research and information, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Includes some full text articles.

Index to UK doctoral theses.

The American Economic Association's index to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million records.
Coverage: 1886 - present.

Supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including adult, primary, secondary, tertiary, and special needs.
Coverage:1988 – Present

Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialities, including multilingual education, health education, and testing.

Lists scholarly journals available on the Internet. Service founded in 1997 by University Library of Regensburg and University Library of Technische Universität München.

Directory of peer-reviewed, open access journals published by Elsevier.

Academic journals and book chapters in communication, education, library and information management, computing and management.

Index to journals which are under review for possible inclusion in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
Coverage: 2015 - present

Applied Psychology reference work, including subject index.

EndNote Web is a Web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies. It syncs seamlessly with EndNote (desktop version) which is available for loan or download from the UC Library.

ARCHIVE - NO LONGER UPDATED. Index covers the environment and related fields in Australia.
Coverage 1987 - Oct 2011.

This service contains the law governing expert evidence in litigation, rules of evidence, procedural requirements and explanation of the fields of expertise.

Contains research, policy and practice issues about Australian families, including issues such as children and child development, marriage and divorce, adoption and foster care, child abuse and domestic violence, family economics, health, housing, population studies etc.
Coverage: 1980 - present

Covers family, marriage, women; culture and institutions, private, civil and family law; social services and public welfare. Content includes peer-reviewed journals from government and specialist associations tackling modern debates on topics including non-traditional families, parenting, marriage, divorce, division of labour, working mothers, birth rates and ageing.
Coverage:1976 - present
Note: The contents of this database are also indexed in FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database)

Includes journals and magazines covering a broad range of health topics, from sports injuries to women's health, food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Coverage:1988 – Present

Authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them. This website incorporates all content previously published on ComLaw.

The public domain ebooks are free to download from this site. There are thousands of public domain ebooks in many subject areas.

This diagnosis tool is intended primarily for physicians and other health professionals concerned with the diagnosis of rare diseases. It uses freely available high quality curated information.

Access to current Australian case law.

Find user-created images and video content. To find material for re-use, select the type of licence (e.g. modifications allowed, all creative commons, etc).

Creative commons subset of the Flickr image and video hosting website. Browse or search through content under each type of CC licence.

Lists a large number of medical journals that provide free full-text access on the web.

A collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds.

Site compiles links to free online medical books.

Database of free & open access computer science books, textbooks, and lecture notes.

Gartner provides access to research and analysis covering all aspects of the Information Technology industry, including the areas of Application Development, Business Applications, Business Objectives, Communications Equipment, Communications Services, Computing Hardware, IT Management, IT Services, Semiconductors, Software Infrastructure & Technology and Society.

Gazette of Law and Journalism has a a comprehensive database of materials on defamation, contempt, suppression, protection of sources, freedom of information and privacy.

The NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences

A data repository for supplemental information for authors of articles in Geological Society of America journals

Single point of access to geological and geophysical data and information about legal requirements for exploration in all Australian jurisdictions. Includes geological maps, mining and mineral information

Coverage: 1990 - October 2006. Covers Australian economics, econometrics, economic modelling, finance, accounting, banking, international trade, tax, management, marketing and employee relations.

An integrated database and journal that publishes biological and biomedical research datasets that are affiliated with BioMed Central in collaboration with BGI, DataCite, BioSharing, and ISA-Tab.

Open access data and information about the occurrence of organisms over time and across the planet

GHO is a gateway to comprehensive health-related data and statistics from all around the world.

12th edition. Provides up-to-date information on pharmacology, including critical areas such as molecular biology, new drugs, and clinical studies.
2 user licences. Please log out immediately after use.

Find images from websites. For freely reusable images, use the Usage Rights filter & select Creative Commons licences.

Search the world's most comprehensive index to the content of books. Some books have chapters available to view.

Web search engine for multidisciplinary scholarly literature.
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Explore over 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history, with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography (with links to Amazon.com) architect info, and live 3D walk-through computer models

GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact on the environment, including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

The New York Academy of Medicine's Grey Literature Report contains new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics.
The database platform is also keyword searchable for content from the archive of previous reports.

Includes clinical, nutritional, medical, social and psychological aspects of HIV/AIDS, as well as the relationship between alcohol and other drugs to HIV/AIDS. Coverage: 1980 to present.

Complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
2 user licences. Please log out immediately after use.

Partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitised from libraries around the world.
UC is not a Hathitrust partner. Only out-of-copyright material can be accessed without institutional login.

This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.

Coverage: 1980 - present. Subset of Australian Family & Society Abstracts (FAMILY), produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Covers health policy and services and the social, psychological, legal and ethical issues associated with health in Australia.

Covers the areas of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.

This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.

US National Library of Medicine database of ongoing health services research and projects, which are yet to be published.

The site provides easy access to a wide range of up-to-date and reliable information on a vast range of health conditions.

HeinOnline provides access to almost 50 million pages of legal information. The collection is mostly international in focus (especially US), with access to legal resources such as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Lib, amongst others.

Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.

Includes full text for more than 1200 journals, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.

ICLR.4 is a legal online research platform that provides access to every case published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales together with an archive of unreported case law and citator information.

An archive of publications by ICOMOS and the international community on heritage conservation. All publications not by ICOMOS are peer reviewed.

Free database of economics publications.

Provides full-text access to articles, papers and standards in computer science, electrical engineering, medical imaging, and electronics.

Collection of preprint articles (not yet peer reviewed) from the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook

Primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that accepts all clinical research studies (whether proposed, ongoing or completed), providing content validation and curation and the unique identification number necessary for publication.

Searchable collections of images and textures which are available for reuse and modification.

Over 8,000 digitised photographs of the ACT and region. Contact the ACT Heritage Library for permission to reproduce images.

Science, Technology and Medicine open access book publisher.

Index of chemical compound information. Coverage 1993 - present.

Archive of collections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Library. No longer updated. Coverage: 1968 - December 2002.

Published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous studies. Coverage 1990 - present

Multidisciplinary Australasian journal indexes with some full text.

Australian research articles, reports and case studies in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health. Coverage: 1977 - present

Multidisciplinary content from and about Australia, NZ, Pacific region, and South East Asia. Includes peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials

Content includes anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts. Coverage: 1977 - present

Fiction, poetry, cultural politics, commentaries, debate and ideas that have helped define the unique Australian identity. Journals include Meanjin, Quadrant, Island, Wet Ink, Griffith Review and Southerly. Coverage: 1940 - present.

Free online database of 2D and 3D images and information exploring the anatomy and physiology of the human body.

Provides free access to bibliographic information about ongoing and published health technology assessments commissioned or undertaken by HTA organisations from around the world. It is a valuable source for identifying grey literature.

International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.

Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.

Evidence–based information and tools for providing the best possible patient care Includes Evidence Based Recommended Practices, Evidence Summaries, Best Practice Information Sheets, Systematic Reviews, Consumer Information Sheets, Systematic Review Protocols, & Technical Reports.

A multidisciplinary archive of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources.

A unique search-engine dedicated to indexing free and open access journals and theses in the arts and humanities, science, biomedical, business and ecology related topics.

Free legal database that collects the recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals. Current law students may register for a free premium subscription.

The Journal of Open Psychology Data (JOPD) features peer reviewed data papers describing psychology datasets with high reuse potential

Free plug-in for Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers. Automatically searches for an open access OR UC-subscribed PDF of any article page you visit, and adds additional PDF buttons to Google Scholar, Web of Science, and PubMed.

Information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed, and possible adverse effects in nursing infants. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate.

Lexis+ is the new version of Lexis Advance, incorporating intuitive and powerful AI-features.  It is a platform for Australian and New Zealand law material. Includes Halsbury's Laws of Australia, CaseBase, Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents and LawNow Legislation.

The national database of Australian library holdings. This information is also available through Trove.

Includes cultural heritage, librarianship, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management.

Includes full-text journals and other sources in all aspects of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

This full-text database provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a range of literary reference works to meet their research needs.

This search tool provides easy access to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander health literature on the Pubmed database. Freely accessible website.

Key database for medicine and health research produced by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Key database for medicine and health research produced by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). This database is also available via EbscoHost.

Huge collection of peer reviewed open access learning materials organised by subject. Free registration.

Open access course materials (videos, notes, exams) for almost all MIT course content.

Medical reference database covering a wide range of medical topics, including disorders, tests, diagnoses, and drugs. Also includes audio, 3D models, and animations.

ARCHIVE - NO LONGER UPDATED.
Indexes and abstracts articles that provide international coverage on management, environmental, packaging and building topics. Subset of the EDGE database.
Coverage: 1985 - July 2006.

A multidisciplinary database of general-interest reference books, primary source documents, and images.

Brings together in one place the majority of the leading materials science databases¸ with specialist content on materials science¸ metallurgy¸ ceramics¸ polymers¸ and composites used in engineering application. Everything from raw materials and refining through processing¸ welding and fabrication to end us¸ corrosion¸ performance and recycling is covered in depth for all metals¸ alloys¸ polymers¸ ceramics¸ and composites. Incluides over 3¸000 primary journals plus trade literature¸ patents¸ newspapers¸ press releases¸ conference proceedings¸ books and reports. Coverage: 1966 - present

Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine. As an alternative to Google, Mednar accelerates your research with a search of authoritative public and deep web resources. Searches occur in real time and can be limited to full text.

A free online Medical Image Database with over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images.

Historic index to articles from Australian daily newspapers. ARCHIVE ONLY, no longer updated. Coverage: 1991 - 30 June 2009

Martindale/Micromedex provides concise information on drugs in clinical use, investigational and herbal drugs, diagnostic agents, pesticides, coloring agents, preservatives, and noxious substances. Summaries of relevant information, referenced abstracts, and reviews with expanded detail are included as well as therapeutic data, synonyms, and manufacturer brand names.

5 Concurrent Users License. Please log out immediately after use.

Open access books and journals published by Monash University Press

Index to all aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues. Coverage: 1988 - present.

Descriptive database of Australian children's books which feature or explore diverse cultures. Includes Australian Curriculum and/or the Early Years Learning Framework codes. Books can be viewed in the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature (located in the Hub, in front of the Library building).

CSIRO vessel-collected (ship) data collected over the past 30 years, as well as such related datasets as those collected with moored instrument arrays (moorings) in the Australasian region.

Index to online theses.

Index to peer reviewed articles and research papers held in New Zealand institutions.

US database of research data in criminal justice and criminology.

Advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

Hosts and provides public access to one of the most significant archives for environmental data on Earth with over 20 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data.

A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines produced by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (USA), in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
NOTE: Guideline evidence varies from expert opinion to high levels of evidence.

UK-produced guidelines, advice, quality standards and information services for health, public health and social care. Also contains resources to help maximise use of evidence and guidance.

Evidence-based information on natural medicines.

Online access to digitised drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, videos, and audio from the collections of the New York Public Library.

This database offers coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.

A free preprint service for the nutritional sciences.

Catalogue of millions of records representing open access digital resources which are held in open access collections worldwide.

Collection of freely accessible, peer-reviewed academic ebooks, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences

OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books, and Periodicals in full text. Covers OECD member countries and other major countries.

Teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission.
Includes full university courses, mini-lessons, adaptations, open textbooks, and K-12 materials.

ERu network of institutions offers free online courses for students worldwide. The OERu partners also provide affordable ways for learners to gain academic credit towards qualifications from recognised institutions.

Full text collection of preprint articles in architecture,humanities, business, economics, education, engineering, law, health, and social sciences.

Search engine containing abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions.
Freely accessible website.

A multidisplinary list of repositories and databases for open data.

List of Open Access subject repositories

A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. Content is stored in Google Docs.

Index to mainly 20th Century American theses. Includes some links to full text in institutional repositories. Free database.

Teaching and learning materials from the University of Michigan licensed under Creative Commons.

(Site replaces Sherpa Romeo.) Find journal, publisher, and funder open access policies. Publisher information includes open access book policies.

Open access textbooks published by the State University of New York. Free to download.

Directory which provides access to over 13000 scientific journals, indexed from DOAJ, eJDS, BioMed Central, HighWire Press and others.

Collection of open access textbooks which can be freely used, adapted, and distributed.

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

Open access biomedical images search engine.

Open access scholarly research index.

Authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

A multidisciplinary database with content from a range of European sites with research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of grey literature covering science, biomedical science, social science and humanities.

Offers a full range of course materials from The Open University in various subject areas and at various levels.

Free, open access textbooks in a range of disciplines. Print copies can be purchased. Includes instructor-only materials.

World's largest collection of open education resources, available for reuse and remix.

Open courseware, Textbooks, 3d object models, learning modules, and videos. Also includes material suitable for K-12 teachers.

Full text journals and ebooks in the field of Health. Also includes the JBI EBP database.

Multidisciplinary collection of journals published by Oxford University Press.

Over 300 dictionaries, language reference and subject reference ebooks published by Oxford University Press.

Collection of ebooks in Business and Management published by Oxford University Press. 15 simultaneous users.

Collection of ebooks in the Political Sciences published by Oxford University Press. 15 simultaneous users.

An open access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research

PDQ ("Pretty darn quick")-Evidence provides access to systematic reviews of health systems evidence. Links together systematic reviews, overviews of reviews and primary studies.

Randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Free access.

Publishes eight peer-reviewed open-access scientific journals. The journals vary in their selectivity and contain differing amounts of commentary articles from opinion leaders in a variety of scientific disciplines.The journals are editorially independent.

One of the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,100 research papers annually. Coverage: biological, physical, and social sciences. Includes some open access articles.

Full text open access dissertations and theses.

Searchable preprint articles in the areas of medical, biological and computer sciences. Articles are not yet peer reviewed and may be in draft format.

Descriptive database of Australian children's picture books aimed at young people from Year 5 through secondary. These Include Australian Curriculum codes, annotations and teaching resources. Books can be viewed in the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature (located in the Hub, in front of UC Library, Building 8) .

Audio files and transcripts of talks given by architects, recorded 1955 - present.

Provides open access to facts, figures, and data with a focus on the impact of human activities on the polar regions as well as offering access to the latest scientific discoveries, findings and insights into the changes in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Provides access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.
Coverage:1985 – Present

Platform dedicated to making early versions of research outputs available, including original research articles and reviews. Content on Preprints is not yet peer reviewed and can receive feedback from readers.

Index of dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day.

Provides limited access to international dissertations & theses on a range of topics.
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More than 17,000 ebooks in many disciplines. Read online or download to your device for a short term loan. These books are also listed in the Library catalogue.

Over 53,000 out of copyright ebooks available for download or online reading. Good source of classic literature and historic information.

The ebooks on this site are in the public domain in Australia (not subject to copyright in Australia) and may be read and downloaded without charge.

Includes full text access to over 300 peer reviewed humanities, arts, and social sciences journals.

ProQuest Central brings together complete databases across major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world

A free preprint service for the psychological sciences maintained by The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

Full text peer reviewed journal collection from the American Psychological Association.

Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, PsychInfo is a resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Coverage 1887 - present

Covers the topics of emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Psychology Database™ provides abstracts and indexing of key psychology journals. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research.
Additionally, Psychology Database includes full text dissertations representing a range of psychology disciplines including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social psychology.

World's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

Open access medical database with links to many free online sources. Includes MEDLINE records.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)

Use the Clinical Queries entry point in PubMed to find systematic reviews and other evidence-based studies

(formerly IBIDS) A database of over 400 000 citations related to dietary supplements. This database allows searches to be limited to the Dietary Supplement (DS) Subset of PubMed.

ProQuest Public Health is a new database designed to be the ideal starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with centralized access to over 800 publications with over 500 in full-text.

Image collection of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most images are copyright cleared and free to reuse.

Free software which tracks your research impact using Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search.

Repository of information about the 3D structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. The structures in the archive range from tiny proteins and bits of DNA to complex molecular machines like the ribosome.

Indexes and abstracts for all aspects of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Coverage: 1982 - present

Database on disability and rehabilitation. Describes over 80,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities.

Digitised images from the British Architectural Library. Includes over 90,000 drawings, archives and photographs.
Reuse: If you sign up for a free registered user account you may download and use the low resolution Images available on RIBApix either for your own private study or as part of research for a non-commercial purpose provided you accompany each Image used with its title and the name of the photographer.

Index to publishing in economics and related sciences created by hundreds of volunteers worldwide.

Descriptive database of Australian picture books for older readers. Includes Australian Curriculum and/or the Early Years Learning Framework codes and links to teaching resources. Books can be viewed at the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature, in the UC Hub.

Holds reports, newsletters, fact sheets and other documents from RRRC and the Marine & Tropical Sciences Research Facility. Research areas include the Great Barrier Reef, water quality, wet tropics rainforests, Torres Strait.

Provides access to US regional business publications.

Lists and shows the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Like OpenDOAR, ROAR has an option to search for a particular repository, or for open access content.

This is a searchable database on the internet. Best evidence is pre-rated for quality by research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing occupational and physical therapists.

The flagship service of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), provides a comprehensive window into the Australian Research Data Commons

Free index of journal articles, books and drawings in the architecture area.
The RIBA Library Catalogue incorporates the Architectural Publications Index.

Multidisciplinary database of over 600 full text peer reviewed journals in the areas of communication, education, political science, psychology, science & technology, medicine, health science & nursing.

Covers all aspects of the design, selection and application of research methodology, with over 100,000 pages from ebooks and journal articles.

Australian index to journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about copyright and intellectual property.
Coverage: 2000 - present

Full text sport & sports medicine journals.

Collection of free, self-paced, online courses. The current focus is on the undergraduate level. Creative commons licensing.

Citation index to scientific research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa.
Coverage: 1997 - present

NOTE: Use this link to register the first time you use SciFinder.
SciFinder gives access to a collection of chemistry and related science information. You are able to search for substances, reactions, patent and journal references.

Read researcher reviews to select an efficient journal for submitting your manuscripts. Includes details such as time taken for each round of peer review, comments from researchers on the process.

Citation index to over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities areas. Coverage: 1974 - present

Provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of both applied and general science topics.
Coverage: 1986 - Present

Over 2000 peer-reviewed journals and a range of ebooks covering the areas of business & economics and the core disciplines of life, physical and social sciences.

Open access journals available from the ScienceDirect publishing platform.

Access to a collection of chemistry and related science information. You are able to search for substances, reactions, patent and journal references.

The SCImago Journal Rank website is free to access and uses journal information from the Scopus database. A useful tool for identifying and comparing journals.

Citation index. Covers scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature including arts & humanities.
Does not support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) or lower.

Open access collection of preprint articles in the Arts and Humanities, Education, Law, and the Social and Behavioural Sciences supported by the Centre for Open Science.

SocINDEX with Full Text is a sociology research database. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and lexicographers.

Access via Web of Science, indexes over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities areas. Coverage 1974-present.

Library of over 700,000 research papers across 30 disciplines.

Covers the international literature of sociology, social work and related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies. 
Coverage:1985 - current

Speech Pathology Database for Best Interventions and Treatment Efficacy (SpeechBITE) is an Australian database of evidence-based practice material related to speech pathology

Open access to preprint articles in sports research and discussion forum.

Multidisciplinary online journal collection. (UC subscribed content only.)

Full text access to Australian standards only. If licences are in use please try again later. Before downloading a Standard: 
1. Install the FileOpen Plugin
2. Ensure you have a current PDF Reader. NB: to open downloaded standards with Adobe Acrobat not in a browser, see ? for details.

 

Statistics portal that contains over 1 million statistics on more than 80 thousand topics from more than 22,500 sources and 170 different industries

Story Box Library is an Australian educational website, created for children to view stories by local authors and illustrators, being read aloud by predominantly Australian and New Zealand storytellers.
Use this link when accessing from outside UC Main Campus.

Story Box Library is an Australian educational website, created for children to view stories by local authors and illustrators, being read aloud by predominantly Australian and New Zealand storytellers.
Use this link when accessing from UC Main Campus

Build or reuse lessons around TED Ed originals, TED Talks, or YouTube videos.

Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. TRIP Pro also allows clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, and patient information leaflets.

Australian tax commentary, journal articles, papers, presentations, daily news, and more.
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Full text access to UC-subscribed content only. Includes over 30,000 recently published ebooks.

Collection of Open Access journals published by Taylor & Francis.

Indexing and abstracts for the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

The Conversation is a collaboration between editors and academics to provide informed news analysis and commentary that’s free to read and republish.

ICLR.3 is a legal online research platform that provides access to every case published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales together with an archive of unreported case law and citator information.

Index to Canadian theses and dissertations.

Use Trove to locate items held in Australian Libraries. Incorporates the national database of Australian library holdings, historic Australian newspapers and Government Gazettes, archived websites, digitised photographs, and other resources.

Historic Australian newspaper articles and government gazettes. Most coverage is between 1803-1954.

UK social and economic data

Open access data on topics such as crime, the environment, gender, and health. Data can be sorted by country and date.

Publications produced by UNESCO or relating to topics covered by UNESCO. Includes texts relating to the development of conventions and councils such as ICOMOS. Select yes under Online access in the filters to search available resources.

Recent premium U.S. news content and archives back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

Directory of information about journals, includes each journal's peer review status (refereed/not refereed) and publisher information. Search by journal title or ISSN.

Provides open access to the materials used in a variety of United Nations University courses.

Preserves and provides access to the research outputs of the University of Canberra. The Repository showcases UC research publications such as books, book chapters, refereed journal articles, refereed conference papers, and student theses. 

UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. It is continuously updated and includes a collection of medical and patient information, access to drug monographs and drug-to-drug, drug-to-herb, & herb-to-herb interactions information, and medical calculators.

International database which covers tertiary education outcomes (including VET, adult and community education), research, policy and published statistics. Free index, includes some links to full text.

Search images from the V&A's collections, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and textiles

Provides comprehensive marketing information from around the the world, including case studies, best practice guides, marketing intelligence, consumer insight, industry trends and the latest news from around the world.

Covers historic Australian employment, industrial relations and related topics.
ARCHIVE - NO LONGER UPDATED.
Coverage: 1907 - December 2002

Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries

Provides access to Open Access conference proceedings journals in biology, life sciences and health, environmental and earth sciences, physics, IT and mathematics, materials science, and humanities.

Includes: ISI Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded 1974+, Social Sciences Citation Index 1974+ and Arts and Humanities Citation Index 1975+); ISI Current Contents Connect; ISI Journal Citation Reports; MEDLINE

Includes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1974+)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1974+)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975+)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990+)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (1990+)
Current Chemical Reactions (1985+)
Index Chemicus (1993+)

Access to U.S., U.K. and other International Primary and Secondary law materials.
Please use your UC ID number as client ID when logging in for the first time.

Covers case law and journals, legislation and commentaries, encyclopaedias and news, including: Laws of Australia, Australian Digest, Australian Legal Monthly Digest, Principles of the Law of Trusts (Ford & Lee)
Please use your UC ID number as client ID when logging in for the first time.

A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language

A Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.

Multidisciplinary full text online journal collection.

The World Bank provides a comprehensive set of statistical data about development in countries around the globe, covering the areas of health, literacy, environment, industry, economic development, labour market conditions, amongst others.

Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe

The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant historic primary materials from all countries and cultures.

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. Provides leadership on global health matters. Broad range of information and statistics on many health topics.

ICTRP provides access to a central database containing the trial registration data sets provided by a number of trial registries. It also provides links to the full original records.

Publications, data, and resources produced by the World Trade Organization.

The World's largest library catalogue.

Find courts and case law by country, as well as International courts and tribunals. Free website.

Open access to over one million academic articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

This database includes information about more than 68000 built and unrealised projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme.

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.

The World Health Organisation's evidence-informed guidelines for nutritional actions.

Therapeutic recommendations designed to assist in the management of patients with specific health conditions. Recommendations are based on the latest international literature and have been interpreted by leading Australian medical experts. The guidelines are written principally for prescribers to provide clear, practical, succinct and up-to-date therapeutic information. The information is independent, unbiased and summarises current evidence and opinion.

Non-profit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT. It offers MOOCs and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence.

Hosts collections of simulation tooks, presentations, animations and teaching materials to support computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.

(Previously DataBib.) Largest and most comprehensive registry of data repositories available on the web, lists over 1,700 repositories, over 70 are Australian. Browse by subject area.